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K. F. BEGLEY,

VII-NE CAR TAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT 23, 2920.

Patented May 24,1921.

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llIINE-CAR TAG-HOLDEE.

pecification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12 321..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that Knnnos F. BEGLEY, a citizen of the United States of America residing at White Star, in the county of flarlan and State of Kentucky, has invented new and useful Improvements in Mine-Car Tag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a device for holding identifying tags on mine cars under such conditions as to guard against the accidental displacement or disconnection thereof from the car until it reaches the dump or tipple, and also under such conditions as to permit of the authorized removal of the tag by the tally clerk or authorized representative of the mining company without interrupting the movement of the car and without special effort upon the part of the operative such tags after being thus removed being retained as a record of the cars filled and forwarded respectively by the miners as a means of indicating the work done by the latter and therefore the credit to which they are respectively entitled; and with these objects in view the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawing, where- 1n:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tag holder applied in the operative position to a car of which a portion is indicated.

Figs. 2 and 3 are detail sectional views of the holder with a tag arranged in operative relation therewith and respectively showing the engaged and the disengaging positions of the tag.

In the operation of mines it is customary for the miners in forwarding respectively the cars filled thereby to attach their individual tags to indicate to the tally clerk or proper oflicial at the dump or tipple the credit to which they are entitled for work done, and in the ordinary practice these tags are attached to the cars by means of hooks or nails and frequently under such insecure conditions as to result in the loss or displacement in transit of the tag and hence the absence of identifying mark on the car when it reaches the vtalesman, and in order to provide against confusion resulting from such loss or displacement there is provided in accordance with the present invention a tag receiving hook 10 in connection with which is arranged a yielding bolt or pin 11,

preferably spring actuated as shown at 12 for closing the throat of the hook as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, said bolt or pin being provided with a finger hold 13 whereby it may be repressed to permit of the engagement of the tag 141- with the hook. The pin or bolt is thus yieldingly but firmly held in position to close the hook and prevent accidental displacement of the tag in the movement of the car from the place of filling to the dump or tipple.

lhe pin or bolt is provided on its rear or inner side adjacent to the tip 15 with a shoulder 16, and the hook 10 is so fashioned that the seat 17 thereof at which point the tag 14L is held by gravity in the normal pendent position of the tag, is removed from the plane of the rear side 18 of the casing or block or plate serving as a means of attachment of the hook to the car 19, to the end that the normal position of the tag when engaged with the hook is offset or removed from the plane of the surface of the car so as to adapt it to be readily grasped by the talesman or attendant at the dump or tipple or near the same as the car passes and without interrupting the movement of'the car. As the attendant grasps the tag and draws it toward him away from the plane of the car, he causes it to engage the shoulder 16 whereupon by slight upward pressure the bolt or pin is displaced or forced into the casing to open the hook as indicated in Fig. 3 so that the tag can be readily withdrawn. Whereas under the ordinary conditions as at present found in practice it is frequently necessary to stop the car and use a pry or tool to remove the tag, in the event that it has been securely fastened to the car, with the inconvenience incident to loss of time, effort upon the part of the attendant, delay of the car, and the necessity of restarting the car after the tag has been removed, the device herein described permits of the detachment of the tag while the car is in motion and by a movement involving comparatively little effort upon the part of the operator.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A tag holder for mine cars having a hook provided with a yielding closure pin or bolt provided at its inner side with a shoulder for engagement by a tag and disposed in {he path of disengaging movement of the atter.

2. A tag holder for mine cars having a hook provided with a spring actuated throat hook provided with a tag seat spaced from closing bolt or pin, said bolt or pin being 10 the plane of attachment of the hook to the provided at its inner side with a projection car, and a yielding hook closing bolt or pin arranged in the path of disengaging move- 5 having a hook fastening shoulder for enment of a tag.

gagement by the tag and disposed in the In testimony whereof he aflixes his signapath' of disengaging movement of the latter. ture. V e 1 3. A tag holder for mine oars having a v KENNUS F. BEGLEY. 

